18. But you may spare for yourselves all the girls who have not had sexual relations.
19. “Moreover, remain outside the camp for seven days; every one of you who has killed anyone or touched someone killed will purify yourselves on the third and on the seventh day—both you and your captives.
20. You will also purify every garment, every article of leather, everything made of goats’ hair, and every article of wood.”
21. Eleazar the priest told the soldiers who had taken part in the battle: “This is the prescribed ritual which the Lord has commanded Moses:
22. gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin and lead—
23. whatever can stand fire—you shall put into the fire, that it may become clean; however, it must also be purified with water of purification. But whatever cannot stand fire you must put into the water.
24. On the seventh day you will wash your garments, and then you will again be clean. After that you may enter the camp.”
25. The Lord said to Moses:
26. With the help of Eleazar the priest and of the heads of the ancestral houses of the community, inventory all the spoils captured, human being and beast alike;
27. then divide the spoils between the warriors who went on the campaign and the whole community.
28. You will levy a tax for the Lord on the soldiers who went on the campaign: one out of every five hundred persons, oxen, donkeys, and sheep.
29. From their half you will take it and give it to Eleazar the priest as a contribution to the Lord.
30. From the Israelites’ half you will take one captive from every fifty human beings, oxen, donkeys, and sheep—all the animals—and give them to the Levites, who perform the duties of the Lord’s tabernacle.